Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached more than 140 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--many featured on TED.com--and prepared speakers to testify before the U.S. Congress, appear on national television, and deliver industry keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

We all owe Cathy Deng thanks for coming up with this simple tool that measures who's talking more: men or women?

Freely available on arementalkingtoomuch.com, side-by-side timers let you keep track of who dominates the conversation, be it in a meeting, a panel discussion, or a conference. It's simple and elegant--and a great way to check out your perceptions with data.

Readers are already thinking about putting this tool to use, as you can see in the tweets below:

@DecSop1 Just put that one aside for a blog post, in fact! Will you let me know if you try it out, and how it went?

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